Country size comparison

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Syria is about 2.4 times smaller than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, making Syria 41.63% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (11.1 million more people live in Syria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. Syria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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